The New Food Pyramid Is a Gift to the Meat Industry
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent much of his public life warning Americans about environmental damage hidden in...
From ICE to Foreign Quagmires: Escalation Everywhere
President Trump began 2026 by invading an autonomous nation and capturing its leader. The Opinion politics writer Michelle Cottle talks...
Venezuela, Renee Good and Trump’s ‘Assault on Hope’
This is an edited transcript of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the episode wherever you get your...
What Would Peace on Immigration Look Like?
It may seem hard to believe when you’re inside the social media cascade, but American society actually stabilized meaningfully across...
How the Struggle to Defeat the Nazis Paved the Way for the Trillion-Dollar Battle for Your Attention
In our anxious age, increasing attention is being directed to our attention, and to the extraordinary and seemingly inescapable forces...
Two Sisters Reunite — One Mute, the Other Struggling for Words
THE OLD FIRE, by Elisa Shua Dusapin; translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins Elisa Shua Dusapin’s fourth novel, “The Old Fire,”...
A Beginner Strength Workout, No Equipment Required
If you’re new to strength training, isometric exercises can be a great place to start. For these moves, you hold...
Can American Children Point to America on a Map?
THE CRADLE OF CITIZENSHIP: How Schools Can Help Save Our Democracy, by James Traub It is hard to think of...
The Former ‘Minister of Everything’ Quits Office Amid One Last Political Storm
In 2013 Chrystia Freeland quit journalism and ran for Parliament as a Liberal in what was then seen as a...
Should I Scrub the Evidence That Our Dad Had a Family Before Ours?
I’m in my 60s and maintain a memorial page for my father on a well-known grave-locator site. Last week I...
The Oscar Nominees Should Be …
Academy Award nominations will be announced on Jan. 22. Here’s who our film critics think voters should pick. BEST PICTURE...
6 Unconventional Ways to Spark Sexual Desire
When it comes to improving libido, the best advice — the advice that is truly evidence-based — tends to be...
In Sayre Gomez’s Art, L.A.’s Problems Move From Real to Hyper-Real
Early in 2024, graffiti artists broke into the half-finished Oceanwide Plaza skyscraper development in downtown Los Angeles, scaled dozens of...
Wagner Moura Stays Outspoken, Even When Trouble Follows
The new Brazilian drama “The Secret Agent” takes place in 1977, a period the opening titles describe as a time...
George Saunders Is No Saint (Despite What You May Have Heard)
Last fall, George Saunders was awarded the National Book Foundation’s medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In the speech...
